Twitter to ban political advertising

We don't let blatantly false ads run on TV. Why is it so hard for Facebook or Twitter to do the same thing?

Probably for the best

Now the fun part -- defining political ads.

This makes sense.. though I'm not sure it will do much in practice to improve political discourse. The combination of politicians having twitter accounts and twitter's content recommendation engine promoting politician's tweets make me think the perceived effect to the end user (twitter showing people messages from politicians or their supporters) will remain more or less the same.

But because twitter isn't taking money directly from those politicians, it perhaps reduces their perceived culpability. It seems like a good move for twitter.

Jack's last tweet in this thread:

>paying to increase the reach of political speech has significant ramifications that today’s democratic infrastructure may not be prepared to handle

Ignoring the technology aspects of this for a minute: he's basically arguing directly against the Supreme Court's Citizen's United ruling, which I find interesting. If we're going to argue that money is too corrupting in online political advertising then it really doesn't have anything to do with being online.